Three star researchers joining UW EE faculty

The department is pleased to announce the hiring of three new faculty members, who are rising stars in
the fields of digital circuits, photonics, and sensors. "We are thrilled to have Visvesh, Matt, and Arka
join the UW EE team," says Vikram Jandhyala, professor and chair. "The three of them will add significant
strength to the department, college and university's growing leadership position in the strategic areas
of big data systems, biomedical systems, and energy."

Visvesh Sathe

Visvesh Sathe joins UW EE this year. Dr. Sathe received the B.Tech degree from the Indian
Institute of Technology Bombay in 2001,
and the M.S and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2004 and 2007,
respectively. Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Washington, he served as a
Member of Technical Staff in the Low-Power Advanced Development Group at AMD, where his
research focused on inventing and developing new technologies for energy-efficient computing.
Dr. Sathe has led the research and development effort at AMD that resulted in the first-ever
resonant clocked commercial microprocessor. In addition, several of his other inventions have
been adopted for use in future-generation microprocessors. His current research interests
include next-generation clocking circuits and architectures, integrated voltage regulation, ultralow
voltage design as well as self-optimizing systems. In the past, he has conducted research
in the areas of adiabatic computing, adaptive circuit design, and power supply distribution and
conversion.

Dr. Sathe has authored over 20 publications, including 4 invited papers and holds 6 patents,
with several others pending. His doctoral thesis was selected as the best dissertation in EECS
for 2007 and was nominated for the Rackham Graduate School Distinguished Dissertation
Award at the University of Michigan. He is a member of the Technical Program Committees of
the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, and the International Conference on VLSI Design.

Matt Reynolds

Matt Reynolds, currently Nortel Networks Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering
at Duke University, will be joining UW this fall with a joint position in Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science & Engineering (his research laboratory will be in the Electrical Engineering
Building).

Matt’s research, which has resulted in 5 best paper awards, focuses on ultra-low power sensing and
computation, RFID, wireless power transfer, biomedical applications, and smart materials and surfaces.
Matt holds 14 patents, with over 30 more pending, and has co-founded three companies. He received his
S.B., M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees from MIT.

His outstanding work on ultra-low power sensing, wireless power transfer, and smart materials will
be of enormous benefit to our students. He has demonstrated considerable entrepreneurial and intellectual
property expertise as well.

Matt joins other recent hires in EE through the ExCEL
initiative, including Josh Smith, Georg Seelig, and Shwetak Patel, who are making enormous impact in
Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Arka Majumdar

Arka Majumdar is currently a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the Intel Labs in Santa Clara,
CA working with the Photonic Signaling Research Group. He completed his B. Tech from Indian
Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 2007, and PhD from Stanford University in 2012. He then
spent one year at University of California, Berkley as a Postdoctoral Fellow. His research
interests include devices in nanophotonics, nanometallics and quantum optoelectronics with a
goal to explore the fundamentals and applications of photonics in information processing. He has
published more than 30 scientific papers in distinguished journals, has been cited more than 400
times and has delivered 10 invited talks at various Universities and International Conferences.
He is the recipient of the Gold Medal from the President of India and the prestigious Stanford
Graduate Fellowship among other accolades.

Arka will hold a joint position between the EE and Physics departments.